Panyacekka( M.Ed-EA)
Assumption University
Bangkok;
15, 1, 2012
Introduction
It should be considered that when the Humanity what is called Human Resources gets started for a human being before we conceptualize what Human Resource is. Since the right for Human should be Human Resource, in religious point of view, we can say that the moment of giving a birth is the very beginning of Human Resource for a man. But, in educational point to view, the beginning of Human Resource for a man is when he/ she goes to school.
School age is the time we can understand the basic nature of our human environment. That is why; we would have to study basic education at school. For school age is prescribed fifth / sixth year old-age of a person, distinct from one country to another, it can be said that the youth of fifth year is an enough age to understand basic education. The time when we learn literally the Human Resource is when we follow the education at school. In accordance with the qualities, abilities and resources gained from school, we manage our lives to be a general worker, a professor, a chief-legitimate, a primary minister and a president of union. These abilities of a man are the real human resources. We can literally and practically earn such abilities or qualities from educational centers such a school, college and university. The environment of a student -such as parents, teachers and students what is called stakeholders, therefore, is essential parts in development of human resources or the obtaining of criteria human outcomes. Especially, the environment to which a student directly relates is Parents and Teachers. To increase the abilities of a student, the two major stakeholders- teacher and parents play a very important role in basic education sector.
The three educational pillars- curriculum, teaching and learning are more vital for a student to gain the competent and modernized resources. Although the teaching is only concerned with teachers, in reality the learning is concerned with teachers as well as students.
Teachers
We could not say that the teachers do not need to learn because of instructors but they also have responsibilities to learn their concern subjects in order to be taught by modern and systematic teaching ways. Because the teacher has the right to select the subject area they will instruct as they wish, they have accountability to teach by very smart teaching approaches. They are therefore in need to learn more clear and effective teaching methods. As a university lecturer or tutor, they must urgently learn to get a rank of wider knowledge to teach the modern theory and concept of their instructed subjects. In fact, the learning must more be done by the teachers than students. The teacher needs to make preparations for teaching – such as learning, noting and effort for comprehending the courses before coming to class. The teacher always need to mind to give the students the open-end which gives the right to the students to have warm interaction with teachers. There must not be a model of teachers that scares the students but articulates the student communication with teacher frankly. In reading passage, the teacher must test the student comprehension, asked question. While in letting student read passage, the teachers must point out key words in passage that betrays the main idea and explain how to read to get main source. One simple for reading is TOEFL English Test: in TOEFL test, the students have to attempt to grasp the key word in passage to know the main idea of writer. This is very essential method for comprehension. In order to read such and think effectively, the students should be trained with concerning text books.
Teaching and learning
Teaching model is not beyond the students’ understanding level. Mainly, teaching model must be designed that students can easily understand and be instructed to learn with motivated mind. The teachers should use the teaching model to stimulate the students’ curiosity or talents for further learning. There must be interaction between the teachers and students and more then instruction passively; the teacher should guide the student to increase the learning motivation which is one of goal of education. The teachers should use group discussion learning and teaching style and service learning style. The difficult subjects such as mathematic by question and answer style, the empirical subjects such as- science by group working style, the social subjects such as history and geography by presentation style should be taught. The history is not to be memorized but to know the events, making a note the year when the events occurred. In fact, any subjects must be beyond by heart learning but just to be comprehended and to be written down as they understand. These concepts are driven in class room.
Parents
Because of basic education level, it is crucial for student to learn with not tired the theory of each subject and know how to apply in daily life. According Orenstein’s research, to increase students’ outcome, the parents take part in important roles. The parents must take a responsibility for managing the works of the students. The student outcomes may differentiate each of students dependent on parents’ well-management and preparation for students. The parents must well manage and fix the time for the students- the time for playing, the time for studying and the time for taking rest. In addition, the parents need to make ready everything for students to go to school freely without stress for something such as –book, pen, ruler and eraser and so on. The research of Orenstein indicated that there can be quite difference of student outcomes between those students whose parents are educated and those students whose parents are not because the uneducated parents do not know how to manage the student life and they try to spend the individual’ right of a student on their family duties or works. If so, if the students are well-organized, the students of uneducated parents and that of educated parents would not differentiate in their outcomes.
Teachers’ attitudes
Since it is said that the potential of development of Human Resources are in hand of teachers, I feel that the interaction between teachers and students or the attitudes of Teachers toward the students is pivotal. The educational Research demonstrated that the teachers to make the progress of students’ efficiencies or 21st century skills must have the following attitudes:
1. Caring and kind
2. Knowing responsibility for taken
3. Having the sense of accepting different culture of students
4. Increasing in power of self-instruction
5. Encouraging the student to create the new thing
These are the features of becoming an effective teacher.
Caring and Kind: it means to understand the interests and need of students. Following the students to teachers’ need or aspiration terribly impact to stimulation of students. Therefore, the teacher must take care of students’ desire and be kind to students.
Knowing responsibility for taken: it means the teachers must know their responsibility to be charged for students. The teachers do not make own use of the time spent for students’ learning time and do not charge the students any school works in their free time. It further means that the teacher must teach in teaching time; do not waste it for any job. The right of students is to learn in learning time and play in free time.
Having the sense of accepting different culture of students; it means avoiding the discrimination of student according to religion, sex, race, national citizen and culture. The students must have equal right in class room- do not treat like a “this is my son, my relative, my religionist and my citizen”.
Increasing in power of self-instruction; it means to change the teaching model into more effective model to increase the student’s comprehension. The teachers need to check the strength of and weakness of their teaching and receive the feedback from students’ report.
Encouraging the student to create the new thing; it is more important one because it is one of measuring the educational standard of a union. This stage impacts the development of a country and non-development of a country. The distinction in development between the West and the East is surely based on educational standard. The free thinking and stimulating the interest of students is a main objective of education- it is gained in democratic education. The students are given the guidance to think the source either in reading or writing or working out. For example, in passage of rabbit and tortoise, the teacher should talk brief story thus; “in race, the tortoise although slow win and the rabbit although quick loose”. It is quite enough for the student to remember the story. But the teachers need to express the focused-idea of writer so that the students enlarge their idea by themselves. In that story, the writer wants to explore the students’ ethic- the result of great alertness and that of laziness. This focused –idea must be put into students’ thinking. And, the students must be asked questions why the tortoise loses and why the rabbit wins. Such a question develops the students’ thinking power and ethical knowledge.
Conclusion
That is why; the harmonious effort of stakeholders- students and teachers by hand in hand are crucial to develop the Human Resources. My understanding of Education is that education is the sense gained through learning and applied methods used in daily life. Only if we can implement the needs of student, we can accomplish the needs of human society and live up to our expectations- equal right. Let’s train the students to be good citizens for union through education.
Reference
Ornstein & Levine by Allan(2008): The Foundation of Education.
Gourneau, Bonni: Five Attitudes of Effective Teachers; Implication for Teacher Training, University of North Dakota, USA. http://www.usca.edu/essays/vol132005/gourneau.pdf
Panyacekka(14,Sep, 2011) : Current Educational Issues in Myanmar: Final Examination Paper submitted to Graduate School of Education of Assumption University, Bangkok.
Tileston, Down Walker (2005): 10 Best Teaching Practices- How Brain Research, Learning Style and standards Define Teaching Competencies, Corwin Press,Calfornia-91320, US.
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